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City Should 'Drop a Big Brick' on State Budget Proposals, Council Says
Five things from Tuesday night's City Council meeting.
A pretty quick City Council meeting Tuesday night has led to a pretty quick 5 Things.
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"Outrageous." "Offensive." "A joke." This was how members of the City Council—mainly Mayor Peter Herzog—described the latest goings-on in Sacramento, including Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed elimination of redevelopment agencies and a number of state legislators' proposals to scrutinize local government to prevent another scandal like the one in the city of Bell. Transparency is all well and good, said Councilman Mark Tettemer, but the government that really needs to clean house is the one in Sacramento. The council resolved to send sternly worded letters about redevelopment to the governor and to local legislators Mimi Walters and Don Wagner.
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How sternly worded will the aforementioned letter to Sacramento be? This from Councilwoman Kathryn McCullough: "Are we going to soft-shoe this, or are we gonna drop a big brick, real hard? If we’re just going to be mealymouthed and stuff, it’s just not going to get it. I’m looking to be hard-core.”
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Councilman Scott Voigts wants to have the council discuss bringing E-Verify, a system that allows businesses to screen out illegal immigrants as potential employees, to Lake Forest. The proposal, which came during council comments, was met with a few moments of silence before the mayor declared it dead for lack of consensus.
Mayor Peter Herzog's to synchronize traffic signals on El Toro Road through six cities were alleviated after a meeting with OCTA. The council voted unanimously to approve a memorandum of understanding with the transportation agency.
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